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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.

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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
Activist
Pastor
New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.
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For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.
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We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age neither sex nor sexual preference race nor mind-set.
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There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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The temptation to moralize is strong it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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